Parallel Verses
King James Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
New American Standard Bible
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
Holman Bible
she is covered with its turbulent waves.
International Standard Version
The sea will come up against Babylon, and she will be covered by wave upon wave.
A Conservative Version
The sea has come up upon Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
American Standard Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Amplified
“The sea has come up over Babylon;
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
Bible in Basic English
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
Darby Translation
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Julia Smith Translation
The sea came up against Babel: with the multitude of rolling waves was she covered.
King James 2000
The sea has come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves.
Modern King James verseion
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The sea is risen over Babylon, and hath covered her with his great waves.
NET Bible
The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude of its waves.
New Heart English Bible
The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
The Emphasized Bible
The sea, hath gone up over Babylon, - With the multitude of its rolling waves, is she covered.
Webster
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
World English Bible
The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Youngs Literal Translation
Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.
Interlinear
`alah
Kacah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:42
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! 42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:7-8
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
Daniel 9:26
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Psalm 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Psalm 18:16
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Psalm 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Psalm 65:7
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Psalm 93:3
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
Jeremiah 51:55
Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
Ezekiel 27:26-34
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
Luke 21:25
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Revelation 17:15-16
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.